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Eric Hayot
@ehayot.bsky.social
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Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.

Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 2d
Otherwise strength of schedule ends up equal for the whole season for everyone (and more or less equal, with home/away effects, after first half). But I think that doesn't adequately account for those kind of differences. More work for you, of course, but maybe a fun project?

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 2d
And playing a team when they go on an early-season run of form is different than when their best two defenders get injured and they fall apart late. I wonder if something like a running 5-game xg difference might capture some of what it means to play Liverpool now (in crisis) vs at start of season

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 2d
Scott, what would it take at this point in the season to create a strength of schedule rating that wouldn't rely on team performance to date but would take into account something like "form"? So, for instance, playing a team when it has 7 players at Afcon is different from playing it when it doesn't

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d
this essay tells one piece of my CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY origin story

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 21d
these are my LLM guidelines for the course - grateful for everyone who’s shared their approaches on here and especially for the ideas shared on the against-a-i.com website by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social and Krista Muratore
Photo of syllabus section “Use of Large Language Models (LLM or 'AI’)”: “The use of LLM tools (i.e. of generative 'artificial intelligence') such as ChatGPT is not allowed in this course, but more importantly, it is not necessary: the above assessments are specifically geared towards encouraging your own spontaneous thinking. It would be significantly more effort for you to try and generate your weekly 250-350 words about the specific texts in our course reader with an LLM than to simply take that same time to write down your personal, original reactions to the text. It will make our seminars infinitely more rewarding to hear about each other's own thoughts - not the 'most likely' thoughts that a machine might spit out. There will be no way to use LLMs on the university computer for your paper, so I also encourage you to take Assignment One seriously as practice for your own spontaneous thinking and writing.”

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 29d
Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Oct 22
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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Oct 22
“Instructure does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, you grant Instructure a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to ...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Oct 21
not gonna lie, this is pretty cool

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Oct 10
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
www.publicbooks.org

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 27
something something complex joke about aerodynamics of the V formation...

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 27
"I went through partners like shit through a, well, me, I guess..."

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 26
Ooh ooh... is the answer to the physician one "a shaman"? Or is that unfair to shamans?

This is actually a fun game. Every school bus driver needs to identify a person who has had their driver's license revoked they admire... Every optician needs to identify a naked mole rat they admire...

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 25
Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
www.alfiekohn.org

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 17
This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 17
Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
www.post-gazette.com

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · Sep 17
Higher ed drives economic growth and innovation, and it’s under attack. Read the new op-ed from @paulakrebs.bsky.social‬ and @ehayot.bsky.social‬ and tell your legislators that research, teaching, and innovation are important to you and your community. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
www.post-gazette.com

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 29
He might but pretty sure the bit would have thousands proposing to you, so, even-steven.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 27
I need AI glasses to tell me what your AI glasses are doing.

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Miller Prosser @millerprosser.bsky.social · Aug 21
The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 20
back up now, weirdly. Maybe Eze broke it.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 20
@poorlydrawnarsenal.com do you know if something has gone wrong with the Arsenal Catch-Up feed? Somehow it's blank for me after working for months...

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 20
I will say that Nelson Weiper has absolutely KILLED for me in multiple iterations of Football Manager--fully endorse this move!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 18
Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 16
But where are you going to get your steel, Adrian? WHERE????

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 16
Playing around with some graphics.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 15
against-a-i.com

Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15
teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 15
"Each of the last seasons." Not "last season," about which I would have had no complaints.

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 14
This would be interesting and the kind of thing written by a smart person if it weren't simply wrong. Arsenal league points in 20-21, 61; 21-22, 69; 22-23, 84; 23-24, 89; 24-25, 74.

Unless maybe "Each of the last seasons" means something else in your language. :-)